How to prepare for an annual appraisal at work

Did receiving your report card at school fill you with dread wondering just what the teacher had said about you and then not knowing how your parents would react? And does the thought of your annual appraisal at work fill you with a similar sense of dread? Recently I...

How to ensure career success

Career success – Why is it that some people always appear to be more successful than others? Is it because they have more experience or perhaps they are just in the right place at the right time? We all know of someone that we admire because of their successes...

How to create a career plan?

Until a number of years ago I’d never really thought serious about the direction my career was going in. Yes, I’d had to set a plan as part of my annual appraisal when I worked for an international company however, as far as I could see, no-one really took them...

Male versus female CEOs

Recruitment specialists Talentful recently carried out a study on male versus female CEOs in the Fortune 1000. Their research showed that only 54 of the CEOs were women and that this is actually a slight improvement – in 2014 there were only 51! The statistics, in...

Key to career success – follow your values

According to Wikipedia, “Values can be defined as broad preferences concerning appropriate courses of action or outcomes. As such, values reflect a person’s sense of right and wrong or what “ought” to be. “Equal rights for all”,...